Hello. Maybe it's me, but I find the Codesys literature on Explicit Messaging lacking. I'm running a PI 4 with EIP. I'm connected to a Robot via EIP using implicit messaging with zero issues. With other PLCs, I can typically use the same adapter device and manually configure my CIP object: class id, instance, assy, etc... I've tried tinkering with the Function Blocks from the ENIP namespace, but I'm not having any luck. Do I need to create another generic EIP adapter, and use "Automatically Generated...
I'm rather new to using CODESYS, but not new PLCs and IDEs. I'm running CODESYS 3.0.15 on an OMRON CK3M motion cotroller. I handle my motion plcs in C with the CK3M IDE and my machine IO plcs in CODESYS. My question is what's a normal size Project in CODESYS? I don't want my project to be more "bloated" than it needs to be, but don't have anything to compare it to. In my project info: The size shows 989.16 KB. When I build the messages show 458944 bytes (458.944KB). I also see messages for contiguous...